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752443

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many NHS Trusts achieved Improving Quality in Physiological Services accreditation for their paediatric audiology service in each of the last five financial years.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL889
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation scheme is run by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The process of accreditation provides an independent assessment that a service meets the accreditation standards.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of the service to ensure that they conform to the standard before application to UKAS for accreditation. There is a pre-registration process within the scheme that enables all services to be able to do an effective gap analysis so that they should be at a point of conforming to the standard on making an application to UKAS. If during an assessment mandatory findings are raised which show non-conformity to any part of the standard then the service agrees appropriate improvement actions with the UKAS team to rectify these and prevent re-occurrence.</p><p> </p><p>The UKAS team base their recommendation for accreditation on the findings raised relating to the conformity to the standard, risk and whether the agreed improvement actions are appropriate and can be achieved within a three month close-out period. Therefore any findings raised must be cleared by the organisation if a positive recommendation for accreditation is to be granted.</p><p> </p><p>In <em>Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups</em>, published in July 2016, NHS England strongly encourages clinical commissioning groups to expect providers to have completed the IQIPS self-assessment tool and applied for accreditation with UKAS, and achieve accreditation within the duration of their contract.</p><p> </p><p>UKAS are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use of accreditation, and information about those services which have achieved accreditation is not held by the Department or NHS England, but is publicly available on the UKAS website.</p><p> </p><p>Information on clinical contracts is not held centrally by NHS England.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen grouped question UIN HL887 HL890 HL891 HL979 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:50:43 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

752444

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many contracts for Specialist Audiology Services used by children, and commissioned directly by NHS England, were signed in the financial years (1) 2015-16, and (2) 2016-17.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL890
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation scheme is run by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The process of accreditation provides an independent assessment that a service meets the accreditation standards.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of the service to ensure that they conform to the standard before application to UKAS for accreditation. There is a pre-registration process within the scheme that enables all services to be able to do an effective gap analysis so that they should be at a point of conforming to the standard on making an application to UKAS. If during an assessment mandatory findings are raised which show non-conformity to any part of the standard then the service agrees appropriate improvement actions with the UKAS team to rectify these and prevent re-occurrence.</p><p> </p><p>The UKAS team base their recommendation for accreditation on the findings raised relating to the conformity to the standard, risk and whether the agreed improvement actions are appropriate and can be achieved within a three month close-out period. Therefore any findings raised must be cleared by the organisation if a positive recommendation for accreditation is to be granted.</p><p> </p><p>In <em>Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups</em>, published in July 2016, NHS England strongly encourages clinical commissioning groups to expect providers to have completed the IQIPS self-assessment tool and applied for accreditation with UKAS, and achieve accreditation within the duration of their contract.</p><p> </p><p>UKAS are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use of accreditation, and information about those services which have achieved accreditation is not held by the Department or NHS England, but is publicly available on the UKAS website.</p><p> </p><p>Information on clinical contracts is not held centrally by NHS England.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen grouped question UIN HL887 HL889 HL891 HL979 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:50:43 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

752445

	registered interest
	date	17/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many contracts for Specialist Audiology Services used by children, and commissioned directly by NHS England, are due to be renegotiated in the financial year 2017-18.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL891
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation scheme is run by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The process of accreditation provides an independent assessment that a service meets the accreditation standards.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of the service to ensure that they conform to the standard before application to UKAS for accreditation. There is a pre-registration process within the scheme that enables all services to be able to do an effective gap analysis so that they should be at a point of conforming to the standard on making an application to UKAS. If during an assessment mandatory findings are raised which show non-conformity to any part of the standard then the service agrees appropriate improvement actions with the UKAS team to rectify these and prevent re-occurrence.</p><p> </p><p>The UKAS team base their recommendation for accreditation on the findings raised relating to the conformity to the standard, risk and whether the agreed improvement actions are appropriate and can be achieved within a three month close-out period. Therefore any findings raised must be cleared by the organisation if a positive recommendation for accreditation is to be granted.</p><p> </p><p>In <em>Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups</em>, published in July 2016, NHS England strongly encourages clinical commissioning groups to expect providers to have completed the IQIPS self-assessment tool and applied for accreditation with UKAS, and achieve accreditation within the duration of their contract.</p><p> </p><p>UKAS are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use of accreditation, and information about those services which have achieved accreditation is not held by the Department or NHS England, but is publicly available on the UKAS website.</p><p> </p><p>Information on clinical contracts is not held centrally by NHS England.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen grouped question UIN HL887 HL889 HL890 HL979 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:50:43 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

753291

	registered interest
	date	18/07/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to ensure that Clinical Commissioning Groups are notified when a paediatric audiology service does not meet the standards for Improving Quality in Physiological Services accreditation following an assessment visit.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL979
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/07/2017 answer text <p>The Improving Quality in Physiological Services (IQIPS) accreditation scheme is run by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS). The process of accreditation provides an independent assessment that a service meets the accreditation standards.</p><p> </p><p>It is the responsibility of the service to ensure that they conform to the standard before application to UKAS for accreditation. There is a pre-registration process within the scheme that enables all services to be able to do an effective gap analysis so that they should be at a point of conforming to the standard on making an application to UKAS. If during an assessment mandatory findings are raised which show non-conformity to any part of the standard then the service agrees appropriate improvement actions with the UKAS team to rectify these and prevent re-occurrence.</p><p> </p><p>The UKAS team base their recommendation for accreditation on the findings raised relating to the conformity to the standard, risk and whether the agreed improvement actions are appropriate and can be achieved within a three month close-out period. Therefore any findings raised must be cleared by the organisation if a positive recommendation for accreditation is to be granted.</p><p> </p><p>In <em>Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups</em>, published in July 2016, NHS England strongly encourages clinical commissioning groups to expect providers to have completed the IQIPS self-assessment tool and applied for accreditation with UKAS, and achieve accreditation within the duration of their contract.</p><p> </p><p>UKAS are supporting the NHS England business objective to increase the use of accreditation, and information about those services which have achieved accreditation is not held by the Department or NHS England, but is publicly available on the UKAS website.</p><p> </p><p>Information on clinical contracts is not held centrally by NHS England.</p> answering member printed Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen grouped question UIN HL887 HL889 HL890 HL891 question first answered 20/07/2017 14:50:44 answering member 4330 label Biography information for Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

809998

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many qualified nurses were employed in the NHS in each year since May 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Clark of Windermere
	uin	HL4344
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and a table showing full time equivalent and headcount figures for Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) doctors and qualified nurses and health visitors working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups from 31 May 2010 to 30 September 2017 is attached due to the size of the data.</p><p> </p><p>Qualified nurses are those identified on the electronic staff record as nurses and health visitors but does not include midwives. Doctors includes all HCHS doctor grades including all junior doctors.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4345 HL4346 HL4347 question first answered 08/01/2018 14:51:34 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL4344 table formatted.docx title Workforce statistics 2010-2017
	tabling member	525 label Biography information for Lord Clark of Windermere

809999

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Nurses
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many full-time equivalent qualified nurses were employed in the NHS in each year since May 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Clark of Windermere
	uin	HL4345
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and a table showing full time equivalent and headcount figures for Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) doctors and qualified nurses and health visitors working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups from 31 May 2010 to 30 September 2017 is attached due to the size of the data.</p><p> </p><p>Qualified nurses are those identified on the electronic staff record as nurses and health visitors but does not include midwives. Doctors includes all HCHS doctor grades including all junior doctors.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4344 HL4346 HL4347 question first answered 08/01/2018 14:51:34 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL4344 table formatted.docx title Workforce statistics 2010-2017
	tabling member	525 label Biography information for Lord Clark of Windermere

810000

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Doctors
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many full-time equivalent doctors were employed in the NHS in each year since May 2010.
	tabling member printed	Lord Clark of Windermere
	uin	HL4346
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and a table showing full time equivalent and headcount figures for Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) doctors and qualified nurses and health visitors working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups from 31 May 2010 to 30 September 2017 is attached due to the size of the data.</p><p> </p><p>Qualified nurses are those identified on the electronic staff record as nurses and health visitors but does not include midwives. Doctors includes all HCHS doctor grades including all junior doctors.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4344 HL4345 HL4347 question first answered 08/01/2018 14:51:34 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL4344 table formatted.docx title Workforce statistics 2010-2017
	tabling member	525 label Biography information for Lord Clark of Windermere

810001

	registered interest
	date	20/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Doctors
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how many doctors were employed in the NHS on (1) 1 May 2010, (2) 1 May 2015, and (3) the most recent date for which figures are available.
	tabling member printed	Lord Clark of Windermere
	uin	HL4347
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2018 answer text <p>NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and a table showing full time equivalent and headcount figures for Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) doctors and qualified nurses and health visitors working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups from 31 May 2010 to 30 September 2017 is attached due to the size of the data.</p><p> </p><p>Qualified nurses are those identified on the electronic staff record as nurses and health visitors but does not include midwives. Doctors includes all HCHS doctor grades including all junior doctors.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4344 HL4345 HL4346 question first answered 08/01/2018 14:51:34 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL4344 table formatted.docx title Workforce statistics 2010-2017
	tabling member	525 label Biography information for Lord Clark of Windermere

809630

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Organs: Donors
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the Welsh Government's Evaluation of the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act which found that after the change in organ donation law in Wales the quarterly mean average of organ donation fell from 14.6 to 13.4.
	tabling member printed	Lord Sheikh
	uin	HL4328
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>A consultation impact assessment, <em>Consultation on an opt-out system of organ and tissue donation</em>, has been published as part of the Government’s public consultation. A copy is attached. This suggests that, when introduced as part of a wider communication and logistical package, opt out systems of consent can be associated with higher donation rates. Important evidence continues to become available from the Welsh Government on impact of the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013, including that a longer period of time is needed to draw firmer conclusions on the impact of the change in the law. The Department invites further evidence to be submitted on factors not considered in the consultation analysis. These will be carefully considered before the Government’s final response to the consultation.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4329 question first answered 21/12/2017 15:39:01 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL4328 and 4329Organ_Donation_Opt-Out_Consultation_Impact_Assessment.pdf title Consultation Impact Assessment
	tabling member	3794 label Biography information for Lord Sheikh

809632

	registered interest
	date	19/12/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Organs: Donors
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the finding that since the introduction of the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act over 178,000 people have opted out of organ donation.
	tabling member printed	Lord Sheikh
	uin	HL4329
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/12/2017 answer text <p>A consultation impact assessment, <em>Consultation on an opt-out system of organ and tissue donation</em>, has been published as part of the Government’s public consultation. A copy is attached. This suggests that, when introduced as part of a wider communication and logistical package, opt out systems of consent can be associated with higher donation rates. Important evidence continues to become available from the Welsh Government on impact of the Human Transplantation (Wales) Act 2013, including that a longer period of time is needed to draw firmer conclusions on the impact of the change in the law. The Department invites further evidence to be submitted on factors not considered in the consultation analysis. These will be carefully considered before the Government’s final response to the consultation.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy grouped question UIN HL4328 question first answered 21/12/2017 15:39:01 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy attachment 1 file name HL4328 and 4329Organ_Donation_Opt-Out_Consultation_Impact_Assessment.pdf title Consultation Impact Assessment
	tabling member	3794 label Biography information for Lord Sheikh